discussion time

During the day, and after the games, children had the oportunity to share their experiences and to learn about the values for their lives.

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movements

Clothes for the Hospital Oncology Patients

It's getting cold and some warmer clothes are needed.

This week we had the opportunity of blessing the patients at the Maputo Central Hospital with some clothes he hope made them feel more confortable...

Of course, first thing to do is to choose what fits in who!

Freezing in Maputo

Don't laugh, please!

Today, it's 75,2 F and we are freezing.~

After getting used to a 95 - 104 F Summer, it seems Winter just arrived.

Ice Cream Party at the Hospital

This afternoon, at the Central Hospital, the Oncology kids were blessed with a delicious ice cream!

Thanks, aunt Patt, for this surprise!

Artists

Father's day in Mozambique

6 AM in Maputo ( 11 PM in New York) - Mariana wakes me up with a Happy Father's Day kiss and a handmade postcard with a special message.

Thank you Mariana, I need more space in the office to show so many things done by my lovely daughters. Maybe a new office!!??

Visitors

Finally we got some visitors from Portugal...

Nuno and Susana are a christian couple involved with a child sponsoring program - Projecto Vitória, at Matola Rio, a poor area outside Maputo.

Although theuir full agenda, they spend some time with Alice, at the Hospital, serving the Oncology patients.

Nuno is a professional fireman and Susana is photografer! So, you may see some good quality pictures in the next days. Nuno already helped us to rescue our cat on the top of the tree!

So, welcome to Mozambique!

Soccer and Life

Thanks to the generosity of Clube Desportivo de Mafra, who donated a lot of soccer kits for our kids, today's training session was so special for the first group of kids, at the orphanage where we have been developing a soccer school - whole life coaching.

Dressed "in yellow", the training was completely different from the others!

Net week, all the group will be wearing new clothes!

KANIMAMBO MAFRA!

Pain and Hope

Almost 2 years ago, we received a first container with donations for the orphanage "Casa das Formigas". At that time, a lot of thinks stayed in Portugal waiting for the next container.

Even not knowing when would be shipped the new container, a lot of friends were keep receiving and colecting things, and some of them providing space for storage.

Suddenly, the challenge wasn't about colecting anymore, but about funding the transportation to Mozambique.

For how long it would take the cancer kids at the hospital to wait for their clothes and other needed materials? How many families would be able to wait for those needed clothes and shoes?

That's when someone had a dream!

A dream of turning up a smile on the mozambican kids. A smile that was fading away slowly meaning pain for someone that would be transformed into hope to others.

The dream impacted others, and because of that, soon, the dream will be just reality.

The container will be shipped to Mozambique!

Our friend Márcia fight with cancer until the last minute and lost her life last week. But her dream will win hundreds of happy faces in Mozambique as she also fight for them.

Thank you, Marcia.

Rainy weekend

Here in Maputo, when it rains, it RAINS!!!!

We were ready to drive 200 miles north of Maputo, for a weekend of rest when started to rain in Maputo. We decided to keep our plans and we drove for 5 hours until we arrived at our destination, 200 miles away from home.

On our return, it took us 7 hours to drive the same distance, just because the main road (only dust on the day before) was only mud (no tar for about 30 miles).

Thanks for our 4x4 vehicle, this was a great and funny adventure! The only challenge was to convince the girls that we should wash the car after this! They just loved all the mud!

Haute Couture

In Paris or Milan, he would be well known by everyone, and would travel all over the world showing his talents.

But he is an ordinary mozambican and works in a small garage in Maputo. This taylor do his best to make his customers happy, like Alice, who is bringing a dress for him to do.

In fact, I have seen in this city more man on this job than women.

Emmanuel School

This morning we had the privilege to be at the Emmnuel School, to share with the 80 students from kindergarden to 12th grade.

7:30 AM and everyone was ready for the weekly devotion.

This school will start a program on Whole Life Soccer Coaching, as 2 teachers completed the training we had in Maputo 2 weeks ago.

Certificates

32 youth leaders from 15 different churches and agencies received their Certificates for the 5 day training in sports ministries. It is just a paper, but what it matters is the knowledge put into practice.

These leaders will meet together again in few weeks to start planning for a KidsGames event in Maputo, during the World Cup in Soccer and Portuguese Games, this summer.

Congratulations to all! This is just the beggining...

Leadership Training in Maputo

Today we finished a series of leadership training conferences. For 5 days, 32 leaders from 15 different churches and agencies completed a training in Sports Ministries and Experiential Learning. For the closing day, the students had the opportunity to serve 170 kids from different areas, with a KidsGames program, linking sports, games and bible teaching.

Big Screen

The African Cup of Nations is in Angola, but in Mozambique we are also celebrating with the fans.

In different towships around Maputo, we had the oportunity to setup a big screen and show the games to hundreds of fans.

Before the second half, a video of top christian players sharing how God is much more important than a prize that will only last for 2 years was on the screen so everybody could see there is a prize that lasts forever and available to everbody.